Heathrow airport alone has about five laptops and 10 mobile phones handed in everyday. Just 60 per cent are reclaimed, with the rest going to local auction houses after three months. Heathrow auctions about 730 lost laptops and 1,460 mobile phones every year.The airport’s lost property staff said there has been a “dramatic increase” in the number of lost laptops since BAA stepped up security in the wake of last month’s “liquid bomb” terrorist scare, which has obliged people to transfer laptops onto checked-in baggage.[via]